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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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I'm not a kid doing some vibe coding, of course I know what I want and basically know how to implement it, the AI is just helping me writing it, auto-complete and all.
The overwhelming majority of software development occurs on a team. You understanding what you’ve asked an AI to do doesn’t mean jack when you need to make sure an entire team can understand it five years from now. And LLMs tend to write code that is incomprehensible to another person the next day.
? developer can write 50 lines per day, LLM help us for some auto-complete or some easy 5 lines routine/functions, but we are not blind and do not accept them blindly without understanding them. And we have pull request and reviews etc and prior to this we have architecture and class diagram and SDD and acceptance criteria and all kinds of things.
You do think that in big companies a developer will use LLM to generate thousands of line per day by himself?
… we had autocomplete that worked better before LLMs came along. If you’re not using an LLM to generate more code then what the fuck is the point.